"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

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Source : Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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“Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.”
“Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.”
“Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.”
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.”
“Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”
“Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.”
“And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.”

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